We connect people by blood, marriage and history with the Isle of Axholme which borders Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire in England. Descendants of Axholme, once an island within the sceptred British Isles, shaped western civilisation, from the Viking Sweyn Forkbeard, to the wife of Alfred 'the Great', through George Washington's Mayflower heritage, to John Wesley's 70 million Methodist followers.